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...plays his favorite sport, tennis, in which he is known on occasion to switch his racquet from his right hand to his left in the middle of a point to avoid using his weaker backhand. So it was that during the 1990s the onetime adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan joined the deficit hawks in Bill Clinton's Administration to support raising taxes, only to bless, however obliquely, President Bush's 2001 cuts in the wake of projected surpluses...
...Atlanta Constitution ran a lengthy piece on the Carter-Ford relationship, with Carter proclaiming , "I don't know of any basic philosophical differences between me and President Ford ...Our friendship is warm and enduring." The passage of time obviously increases understanding. Carter and Clinton both criticized Ford for pardoning Nixon in 1974; now both say Ford was right. Secretly, the Bush people chortle that Clinton on many issues has become a Republican...
...near legendary windfall was made in a public offering by William Simon, Treasury Secretary in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. In 1982 a Simon-led group of investors put up $1 million of their own money and borrowed $79 million to buy the Gibson greeting-card company from RCA. They turned Gibson into a private firm and reorganized its operations. Then, just 18 months later, they sold $290 million worth of the company's stock to the public. Simon alone earned more than $15 million and wound up holding shares in Gibson worth about $50 million...
...judge if he shares President Reagan's opinion of abortion or affirmative action." The escalation of partisan infighting has begun to worry close observers who take neither side in the fray. Constitutional Scholar Archibald Cox, who was fired as special Watergate prosecutor by President Nixon, fears that politicizing the appointment process endangers something more crucial to the nation than either party's social agenda. He warns, "The idea of judicial independence may be at risk." Neither side could welcome such a result. The intent of the framers on that point is beyond debate. --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington
Lyndon Johnson makes some memorable appearances in the book. The former President enlivened one meeting by taking off his clothes, stretching out naked on a table and calling for a masseur, meanwhile firing a stream of questions at Linowitz. Richard Nixon fidgets past, inviting Linowitz to the White House in the 1960s to discuss the author's work as chairman of a commission on campus unrest, then betraying his own insecurity by reminding Linowitz that "I went to Whittier College, not as good as Hamilton [Linowitz's alma mater], but a good school." Jimmy Carter is depicted as so preoccupied...